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The 11 January 2015 Potiskum bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by Boko Haram against a mobile handset market that killed 3 people and wounded 26.

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Two young girls of about 10 years of age, working for Boko Haram, were sent to the town of Potiskum in the northern Yobe State of Nigeria on a suicide mission. At mid-afternoon, they detonated their explosives at an open market selling mobile handsets (an old type of telephone), killing 3 people and wounding 26. 

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